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Attitudes surrounding the continuation of female circumcision in the Sudan: passing the tradition to the next generation.

A study was conducted to examine attitudes surrounding the continuation of female circumcision in the Sudan. Results indicated that close to 90 percent of all women surveyed either had or planned to have all of their daughters have some form of circumcision and that roughly half of those women repo...

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Published in:Journal of Marriage & Family Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 966 - 982
Main Authors: Williams, Lindy, Sobieszczyk, Teresa
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell November 1997
Subjects:
Female genital mutilation
Social attitudes
Manners & customs
Women
Sudan
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